Today the main national holiday is celebrated in the country of Georgia – the Day of First Republic.
This date is devoted to the first declaration of independence in 1918, but then the Georgians enjoyed their freedom not for long. Four years later Georgia joined the Soviet Union and remained a part of it until its breakup in 1991. Zviad Gamsakhurdia became the President then.
Georgia's fate was not always easy. Over the last 23 years this proud nation experienced two wars and revolution. Today this state is successfully developing and becoming a remarkable tourist destination. In November 2013 Georgia initialled an Association Agreement with the European Union and is currently engaged into active pro-Western policies.
However, despite the Soviet past and focus on joining the EU, the country carefully honours its national traditions and preserves the local flavour. In this country Russian is spoken mainly by older generation and is not popular among young people. In general, Russian has a very limited application; no one even speaks it in the mountain region. Now English is tending to become the second official language in Georgia, children are taught it at schools from the first grade.
On the 15-th of April the Day of Love in Georgiais celebrated.This holiday, dedicated to lovers, as an alternative to the famous Western holiday called Valentine's Day,was organized by Georgian parliament that accepted proposal of Besik Chubinidze - a famouspersonality in local show business.
National center of intellectual possession of Georgia (‘Sakpatenti’) made a patent on the trademarks of thirty names of national products. The head of the center Irakli Gvaladze reported about that.
The experts of NASA published video record and several shots which show how the planet Earth looks during New Year holidays if one looks at it from the Universe.
The district court of Amsterdam ordered to return to Ukraine 500 showpieces from four museums of the Crimea famous as ‘Scythian gold’, as Reuters reported on Wednesday, on the 12-th of December.
The famous in the world artist Hailey King working under the trademark FLOX has created the design of Christmas baubles depicting flower with medical peculiarities manuka. With the help of sales FLOX intends to arrange December campaign on the collection of financial expenses for the support of hospices in New Zealand.
As it is reported by the edition France24, at the auction in Paris the most famous gun in the story of French literature has been sold. The poet Paul Verlain tried to shot his love partner using the stated weapon directing to bullet to another famous literature activist Arthur Rimbaud.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In Britain on Tuesday it was an auction where for the first time for almost a century the skeleton of an extinct bird dodo was sold. The organizers of the action count that the skeleton will charge an amount from 300 to 500 thousand pounds (370-620 thousand dollars).
The samples of saliva of 83 aboriginal Australians and 25 Papuans showed that they are the direct descendants of the first people who inhabited the green continent nearly 50 thousand years ago.
International Day of chocolate is non-official holiday dedicated to the favorite delicacy of many people on the planet. It is always celebrated on the 13-th September annually. This holiday is the wonderful reason to take a piece of chocolate, even if you try cutting down on sweets.
